SOURCE: Toshiba Qosmio G15-AV501
See the below "copy & paste from another member" I don't know how sucessful these other owners were, but it's worth a try:
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posted on Dec 24, 2007
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I had the same problem, what you need to do is call Pamela Saunders at Toshiba Corporate in Irving, CA and she will get it repaired for you at no cost to you regardless of warranty. This is a bad batch of computers.
The Phone Number is: 800-457-7777 or 949-462-6000
SOURCE: forgot bios password
On some models of toshiba laptops they can only be reset by a toshiba laptop repair center. I believe your laptop is one of them. How it works is when you turn the laptop on there is a special keycode combination that you push and then you have to call advanced technical support and they give you a special code back to unlock it. Advanced Technical support will only talk to Toshiba repair center techs.
Hope this helps. Toshiba Customer Service 1-800-457-7777
SOURCE: New hard drive for my Toshiba Qosmio G15 R laptop
I believe with Toshiba they normally would give you a recovery disk and then a drivers and utilities disk as well. If you don't have both then I would suggest installing windows xp and then go to this page:http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=SB&os=&category=&moid=835452&rpn=PQG10U&modelFilter=G15-AV501&selCategory=3&selFamily=804517Click on the downloads button and from there choose your operating system and you can download the drivers from that page.You'll know which drivers you'll need by going into the device manager and seeing what has a yellow question mark next to it.If you need more help with this let me know and I'll help you more.
SOURCE: Toshiba Qosmio G15-AV501 will not boot
Subscriber/user FMFM85 had posted a solution for another laptop that worked for me. That was Power down, remove battery, remove power, wait five minutes, plug in power and do not install battery, I rebooted to last known good configuration. This method got me further along.from the absolute DEAD state the laptop was in. Now I know that the laptop is really hosed in other ways. I will keep you posted.
SOURCE: when i turn on the computer i here the hardrive
Screen not working
are you able to hear the windows log in?
if you do but no image, most likelly your
video card is ruined. overheated or dropped maybe?
don't worry is bad but not that bad, there is a way to fix that by a professional.
take it to a computer repair shop and have them check the video card ask if they have a rework station or someone who may they have to unsolder about 50 pins at the same time get a new card and solder it again.
sometimes they apply heat to it and it will work again but for just a few days maybe weeks but it goes bad again. so replacement is the best option.
I used to charge about 250 bucks but you may be able to ask for a rebate.
do not take it to a major computer store they would tell you there is no repair so you can go in and get a new computer
if it works for you don't forget to rate me
thx
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